[Asis-l] CfP: PIM 2006 - a SIGIR 2006 workshop

[Jacek Gwizdka]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Personal Information Management: Now that we're talking, what are we learning?

A SIGIR 2006 WORKSHOP
August 10 & 11, 2006, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, USA

WEBSITE: http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim06home.htm

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 21 May 2006 (Sun)


1. ORGANIZERS

William Jones, University of Washington, USA
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Ofer Bergman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Robert G. Capra III, Virginia Tech, USA
Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Jacek Gwizdka, Rutgers University, USA
David Maier, Portland State University, USA
Manuel A. Pérez-Quinones, Virginia Tech, USA
Jaime Teevan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


2. Personal Information Management: PIM 2006

Good research relating to Personal Information 
Management (PIM) is being done in several 
disciplines including database management, 
human-computer interaction, artificial 
intelligence and, certainly, information 
retrieval. This two-day workshop will continue 
momentum towards building a community of 
researchers doing PIM-related research.


3. Workshop Objectives

·        Examine where PIM currently stands as a 
field of inquiry. What should it encompass?

·        Determine how to measure progress in the 
study of PIM and its practice. What does good and better PIM looks like?

·        Revisit and add to the list of key 
problems and challenges identified in the PIM 
2005 workshop ( 
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim05home.htm). 
What progress has been made over the past year and a half?

·        Identify promising approaches to PIM (that may meet these challenges).

·        Identify specific opportunities for a 
greater, two-way exchange between researchers 
focused on PIM and researchers focused on IR. 
Certainly, IR technologies can assist people who 
need to find or re-find information to meet a 
current need. Information filtering technologies 
may also be usefully applied to assist people 
with the difficult “keeping” task of deciding 
where new information should go. Conversely, the 
analysis of PIM may challenge and inspire 
modification to standard paradigms of IR inquiry.



4. SUBMISSION

4.1 Important Dates

Submissions: Sun, May 21, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006
Final camera ready submissions: June 30, 2006
Workshop: August 10 & 11, 2006

4.2 Requirements

Interested participants should submit a 100 word 
biography, a one- to two-thousand-word 
(2-to-4-page) paper describing their position and 
relevant work they are doing. (Please use an ACM 
SIG Proceedings Template available at: 
<http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html>http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). 


Accepted participants are also expected to 
provide a simple poster (in PDF) summarizing 
their PIM-related research. Posters will be 
printed and posted both days to serve as talking 
points and conversation starters.  Participants 
are encouraged to read the report from the 2005 
workshop ( http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim05home.htm).

Submissions should be emailed to Jacek Gwizdka, 
<mailto:pim2006 at gwizdka.com>pim2006 at gwizdka.com, 
by midnight PST on Sun, May 21, 2006. Subject 
line should begin with “PIM2006”. See below for 
more information on workshop theme and topics.

Jacek Gwizdka
Department of Library and Information Science
Rutgers University
pim2006 at gwizdka.com

5. Additional Workshop Information

5.1 Workshop Theme.

Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to 
both the practice and the study of the activities 
a person performs in order to acquire or create, 
store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use and 
distribute the information needed to complete 
tasks (work-related and not) and to fulfill 
various roles and responsibilities (as parent, 
employee, friend, member of community, etc.).

There is a critical need to continue momentum 
towards building a community of researchers doing 
PIM-related research. As an important first step 
in this process, thirty leading researchers from 
various disciplines convened in Seattle, WA on 
January 27-29, 2005 for a workshop on PIM 
sponsored by the National Science Foundation 
(NSF) (see the final workshop report at 
<http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/>http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/).

Participants identified the potential for PIM to 
promote a synergistic multi-disciplinary dialog. 
Another sentiment expressed was that research 
problems relating to PIM often “fell through the 
cracks” between existing R&D efforts.

The workshop led to a special issue on PIM in the 
Communications of the ACM (January, 2006 issue). 
Participants also expressed an interest in 
re-convening periodically and in connection with 
other conferences such as SIGIR, SIGCHI and ASIST 
(<http://www.asis.org/>http://www.asis.org/) – 
each of which attracts a substantial subset of 
people doing PIM-related research.

The upcoming SIGIR 2006 conference in Seattle 
represents an excellent opportunity to continue 
the momentum begun by the original workshop and 
also to engage a larger community of people 
involved in information retrieval research that relates directly to PIM.


5.2 Workshop Topics
We encourage participation based on, but not 
limited to, the following PIM-related topics:

Understanding PIM
·         How Do People Find and Re-Find Information?
·         How Do People Keep Information for Later Use?
·         How Do People Organize?
·         Methods and Methodologies of PIM Fieldwork: How Do We Study PIM?

Tools & Techniques in Support of PIM
·         Tools for Searching Personal Information
·         Tools for Structuring Personal Information
·         Underlying Data Representation and the 
Unification of Personal Information
·         Email and PIM
·         Teachable/learnable Strategies of PIM
·         Methods and Methodologies for the Evaluation of PIM

PIM in the Larger World
·         PIM and Other People
·         Privacy and Projection of Personal Information
·         Security, Law and Policies (Public and Corporate)
·         PIM for Different People and Situations
·         Patient PIM
·         PIM for an Aging Population
·         Individual Differences




  Jacek Gwizdka, PhD
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Library and Information Science
  School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
  Rutgers University
  www.gwizdka.com                       pim2006 at gwizdka.com
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